Bm

Give IDreland back to the IGrish
Don't mDake them have to take it awAay
Give IrDeland back to the IGrish
Make IDreland IA7rish tDoday
Great BDritain, you are tremEendous
And nGobody knows like mDe
But really what are you dEoin'
In the laGnd across the sDea
Tell meBm how would you lEike it
If oGn your way to wDork
You were sBmtopped by Irish sEoldiers
Would you lGie down, do nothing
Would you give in, go bersA7erk
Give Ireland back to the Irish
Don't make them have to take it away
Give Ireland back to the Irish
Make Ireland Irish today
Great Britain, and all the people
Say that all people must be free
And meanwhile, back in Ireland
There's a man who looks like me
And he dreams of God and country
And he's feeling really bad
And he's sitting in a prison
Should he lie down, do nothing
Should he give in, or go mad
Give Ireland back to the Irish
Don't make them have to take it away
Give Ireland back to the Irish
Make Ireland Irish today
Give Ireland back to the Irish
Don't make them have to take it away
Give Ireland back to the Irish
Make Ireland Irish today
NOTE: "You can't stay out of it, you know, if you think at
all these days. We're still humans, you know, and you wake
up and you read your newspaper, it affects you. So I don't mind
too much, it doesn't worry me, like I say. I don't now plan to
do everything I do as a political thing, you know, but just
on this one occasion I think the British Government overstepped
their mark and showed themselves to be more of a sort of a
repressive regime than I ever believed them to be." (Paul
McCartney, 1972)